Visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Smriti here.
Steinmeier, who is on a trip to New Delhi from Sept. 6 to 8, reached the memorial, where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, at 4:00 P.M. And went straight to the spot where the Father of the Nation was shot dead.
Senior staff members at the memorial briefed Steinmeier about the memorial and the last days of Gandhi.
The German minister was flanked by the country's ambassador to India, Michael Steiner, and other officials with a batch of German mediapersons also having accompanied him. Steinmeier spent around 30 minutes at the memorial.
He then proceeded to the museum section where photographs, sculptures, paintings, frescoes and other items pertaining to the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi are kept.
Before he left, a kit containing Gandhian literature and a memento was present to him by the staff of Gandhi Smriti.
